Diplomatic Efforts Seek to Mend Damaged US-Bolivia Relationship

Three weeks after pro-President Evo Morales leaders in the Cochabamba region officially expelled all personnel connected to the U.S. Agency for International Development for the agency’s role in ”conspiring against the Morales government” and then announced that all U.S. Embassy staff were also not welcome for the same reasons, U.S. and Bolivian officials met in July to discuss these problems, the extradition of former Bolivian officials wanted there for murder and issues relating to U.S. funding of the war on drugs.